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Could not stay with it, the narration was awful

Overall
3 out of 5 stars
Performance
1 out of 5 stars
Story
4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 12-23-24

Sorry, I returned the book as I could not take the narration. HOW do you mispronounce ARISTOCRACY as aristo-CRASSY. what? Herodotus, ok. excused. Diaspora is NOT Dye-a SPORE uh. oye. It got So distracting as I dreaded the next word chop suey. I gave up and decided I will try for the print version when I have a lot of time to read. Too much material to trust to someone who does not seem to know some pretty common words it was odd. And was putting me to sleep. Now SIMON VANCE could have whipped this one! I only got two chapters in and was so confused that I can't rate fairly on content other than an audio book should be entrusted to a GOOD or GREAT narrator, not saving money.

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Incredibly boring

Overall
2 out of 5 stars
Performance
3 out of 5 stars
Story
3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 10-20-23

I truly don't understand the raves for this title. My attention kept wandering. While the narrator can obviously master Italian pronunciation it was just so dry and boring. I love historical fiction, historical non- fiction...various eras...but this book just did not pull me in. Disappointed.

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had potential. An insufferable amount of swearing

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2 out of 5 stars
Performance
2 out of 5 stars
Story
2 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 09-30-23

DISAPPOINTING, this could have been a good Gothic horror but was reduced to NON STOP swearing, bloody gore, and I swear if the ghost offered her one more cup of tea I was gonna scream. The silly dialogue in general too! Every conversation between obnoxious daughter and weak mother characters devolved into f bombs and worse. In particular I Really don't appreciate an author using versions of Jesus Christ as swear words just about every other sentence. Learn to write dialog, please! and the gore was actually ridiculous by the final chapters.

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the violent end of the 2 cops was not at all realistic and should have been resolved. How were ghosts 'healed ' from injuries but these guys mutilated and left for dead. I would love to have a scene where it was reversed. waste of a credit.

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Definitely regret this one.Sappy, dated and dull.

Overall
2 out of 5 stars
Performance
2 out of 5 stars
Story
2 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 05-09-22

Part way through and I am regretting this wasted credit. Maybe her later books got better, I thought I would start with #1. UGH. Main character is gorgeous, she uses a blackberry--uhoh-- so I knew this was an older read.
Story? Total stranger wills her his run down mansion and all his money. Cute guy/author conveniently blows in to her life as well. Her b.f. is a Birkenstock wearing hippie with a PHd. LOL.

So, Imagine a romance with no action. A haunted house where it takes forever for something to actually happen. A fussy single successful career woman who wears Lily Pullitzer, Manola Blaniks but is in bed by 9. And has a prudish nasty personality for the most part, yet sees ghosts? Seriously. Lucky her, too she's tall and thin yet lives on coffee, donuts and dessert. Sorry, not fooling any of us. At least make her diabetic instead of uptight and acting like a decades past old mail.

And I hate sachrine southern accents. My father came from Birmingham and ftr he didn't talk like that. The narrator's accent comes and goes and is annoying. I've been to Charleston and I am not sure about the narrator.
Anyway that's my opinion. Very amateurish writing.

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